{"id":22159,"date":"2016-11-12T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22159"},"modified":"2016-11-12T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:19:28","slug":"its-worse-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22159","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Worse Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/its_worse_than_you_think_20161111\">It\u2019s Worse Than You Think\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry_body_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"entry_body_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article_main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/reportuploads\/Donald_Trump_Police_State_590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article_main_image_captiondetail\"><em>New York City police officers guard Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s Manhattan home.\u00a0<small>(<a title=\"Richard Drew \/ AP\" href=\"hhttp:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Trump-Securing-The-Tower\/1712e52f15db4da6aabe64c4c9222d2c\/1\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Drew \/ AP<\/a>)<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump\u2019s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments in the stocks of the war industry, internal security and the prison-industrial complex have skyrocketed since Trump won the presidency. There is a lot of money to be made from a militarized police state.<\/p>\n<p>Our capitalist democracy ceased to function more than two decades ago. We underwent a corporate coup carried out by the Democratic and Republican parties. There are no institutions left that can authentically be called democratic. Trump and Hillary Clinton in a functioning democracy would have never been presidential nominees. The long and ruthless corporate assault on the working class, the legal system, electoral politics, the mass media, social services, the ecosystem, education and civil liberties in the name of neoliberalism has disemboweled the country. It has left the nation a decayed wreck. We celebrate ignorance. We have replaced political discourse, news, culture and intellectual inquiry with celebrity worship and spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Fascism, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transatlanticperspectives.org\/entry.php?rec=151\" target=\"_blank\">historian Gaetano Salvemini<\/a>pointed out, is about \u201cgiving up free institutions.\u201d It is the product of a democracy that has ceased to function. The democratic form will remain, much as it did during the dictatorships in the later part of the Roman Empire, but the reality is despotism, or in our case, corporate despotism. The citizen does not genuinely participate in power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Worse Than You Think\u00a0 New York City police officers guard Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s Manhattan home.\u00a0(Richard Drew \/ AP) Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump\u2019s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments in the stocks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14551,9035,6213,7844,1491,14549,6214,557,1880,635,14550,3174,8738,6501,871],"class_list":["post-22159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-capitalist-democracy","tag-chris-hedges","tag-conservative","tag-donald-trump","tag-fascism","tag-internal-security","tag-liberal","tag-nazis","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-police-state","tag-prison-industrial-complex","tag-social-unrest","tag-truthdig","tag-war-industry","tag-weimar-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22161,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions\/22161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}